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submitted 1 year ago by mateowoetam@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Wanted to know if there's such a thing as Debian based distro but make it Rolling release, is that something already in existence or will I have to just tinker a lot within Debian?

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[–] alerich@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought Debian Testing was basically rolling? Most of the packages at least Btw: Tumbleweed has been rock solid for me over years.

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I think you want Debian Unstable (Sid) or smth

[–] Dougtron007@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not well versed with Linux but I saw a lot of people saying open SUSE tumbleweed was pretty good. I’m gonna try this today for my new low power Plex/home bridge machine.

[–] raspberry_confetti@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is an excellent suggestion, but be mindful that suse is an RPM-based distribution and upgrades will necessarily install slower than other formats. If that's not a problem (just run updates via cron) then it's fine.

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It will probably be fine in practice (I hear openSUSE is relatively stable), but I wouldn't recommend upgrading software automatically - you might end up with a broken system and no idea what caused it.

[–] fabian_drinks_milk@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I am currently looking at using OpenSUSE Micro OS for a home server. It is based on Tumbleweed and also rolling release, but it has an immutable filesystem and can automatically update and rollback. It's similar to Fedora Core OS, which was my first choice, until the Red Hat drama.

[–] veer66@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 1 year ago

@mateowoetam It is Debian Sid. You can use Debian 12 Installer. After installing, you can change your repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list to sid, and running apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. I suppose you would prefer installing minimal packages before upgrading to Sid.

[–] ablackcatstail@lemmy.goblackcat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know about a Debian-based rolling release. Have you thought about going to Arch. Pacman is a pretty good package management system.

[–] raspberry_confetti@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Pacman is not a good package manager; if something goes wrong during the install it can leave your system in an unstable state. A better package manager would be one that has transactional updates.

[–] letbelight@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago

Fedora is rolling relase and stable. I choose fedora for some time, and after more than 4 years, never come back to deb based distro...

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